comprehensive school
noun /ˌkɒmprɪˈhensɪv skuːl/
/ˌkɑːmprɪˈhensɪv skuːl/
(also also informal comprehensive)
- (in the UK) a large state secondary school for boys and girls of all abilities aged 11 or over. Comprehensive schools were introduced in the 1960s to replace the system of dividing children between more academic grammar schools and less academic secondary modern schools.
综合学校:一所大型国立中学,适合所有11岁或以上能力的男孩和女孩。1960年代引入了综合学校,以取代将儿童划分为更多学术语法学校和较少学术中学的现代学校的系统。